Best Mobile Photo Editor (2020)

Even though I’m not a fan of excessive photo editing, sometimes even the best-taken photo just cries out for a little TLC (as the English say, “touch love care”).

There are a ton of apps on the AppStore (and Google Play) that will help you achieve your goals. Some have just a few useful options, while others have limitations that force you to reach into your wallet to get what you want.

I’ve recently been going through a ton of apps to find the one that has everything I need to achieve the desired effect.

On my phone, I have apps like Photoshop Express or Lightroom from Adobe and Fine.

To play with photos I use Prisma and Animatrix, but recently I have been reaching for one application more and more often - Snapseed.

Snapseed is a very powerful free tool with a lot of options that you would have to pay a lot for at the competition. No wonder it was bought some time ago (December 2012) and is owned by Google. I personally used it at the turn of the years, but somehow I never liked it, until now.

Most editing is done using intuitive gestures to the sides or up and down. There is no shortage of ready-made filters (Look), but the most extensive section is the available tools (Tools). After finishing the ‘fun’ we can save our photo (Export) with the changes made, which can be undone, or as a final file.

The application has an extensive tutorial in which we can get to know the possibilities of the application, as well as learn how to add magic to our photos in a professional way.

Of course, the app will not replace us. If we do not have a trained eye and our photos come out average, we will not suddenly turn them into a masterpiece.

Additional options worth checking include information about the photo, which will display basic data regarding the aperture or exposure, but will also read the geolocation and present it in the form of a Google map.

The options for the application itself (Settings) are very basic. We can set whether the application will somehow change the size of our image (disabled by default) and the quality of our final image will be saved (JPG 100% by default, but a PNG option is also available).

Here’s an example of one of the edits using the iPhone 11 Pro and the HDR filter in Snapseed.

Of course, “best” is a relative term, so this may change in the future. Below are a few videos showing how the program works in a nutshell.

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Regards